Deals of the day - mergers and acquisitions

Jan 31 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions
and disposals were reported by 2100 GMT on Thursday:

** Private equity firms, including Carlyle and KKR
, this week submitted non-binding offers for control of
French fashion brands Maje, Sandro and Claudie Pierlot, sources
familiar with the transaction told Reuters.

** Royal Dutch Shell is to shut permanently most
units of its 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) Hamburg-Harburg
refinery in March, completing a deal made with Swedish refiner
Nynas in 2011, the company said on Thursday.

** UniCredit, Italy's largest bank by assets, may
sell Kazakhstan's ATF Bank to a firm owned by Kazakh
businessman Galimzhan Yesenov for about $500 million, sources
close to the deal and in ATF Bank told Reuters on Thursday.